{"id":5468,"date":"2026-01-04T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/black-cross-iles-greg\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:29:08","slug":"black-cross-iles-greg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/black-cross-iles-greg\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Cross – Iles, Greg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Betty Thornhill Iles AND every man and woman who sacrificed their lives in the Allied cause.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s odd how death often marks a beginning rather than an end. We know someone for ten years, twenty years, longer. We see them in the course of daily life. We speak, laugh, exchange harsh words; we think we have some notion of who they are.<\/p>\n

In death, the fluid impressions formed over a lifetime begin to assume definite shape. The picture comes into focus. New facts emerge. Safes are opened, wills read. With finality, and with distance, we often discover that the people we thought we knew were actually quite different than we imagined. And the closer we were to them, the more shocking this surprise is.<\/p>\n

So it was with my grandfather. He died violently, and quite publicly, in circumstances so extraordinary that they got thirty seconds of airtime on the national evening news. It happened last Tuesday, in a MedStar helicopter ambulance en route from Fairplay, Georgia \u2014 the small town in which I was born and raised \u2014 to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where I work as an emergency physician. While making his rounds at Fairplay\u2019s local hospital, my grandfather collapsed at a nurses\u2019 station. Fighting to ignore the terrible pain in his lower back, he had a nurse take his blood pressure. When he heard the figures, he correctly diagnosed a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm and realized that without immediate emergency surgery he would die.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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